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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
preventing diabetes in indigenous populations. “I quickly realized that business alone was not enough to reverse the dysfunction of some tribal economies,” says Keen. Earlier, he’d experienced the fallout of an LBO at Maine shipbuilder...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Media: Courting the Cord-Cutters
dropped their $120 subscription it cost everyone in the chain, from the distributor to every content channel. Eventually the industry had to pay attention. There are currently two primary approaches to winning back cord-cutters and View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
microfinance applied to the problems of education. Specifically, we came to believe that an innovative microfinance-based solution could have a meaningful impact on the reduction of the high dropout rates in primary schools that cause...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
primaries with a single, nonpartisan primary that uses the same ballot for all voters. The top five finishers then advance to the general election. The second step involves implementing ranked-choice voting...
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Young, Susan
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
performing costly medical procedures. And that’s a problem, argues Senior Fellow Robert S. Kaplan, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. “It becomes obvious that you can make the tradeoff to spend more time earlier...
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- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
stall a company’s scaling efforts. To prevent this from happening, companies must make core processes like recruiting, interviewing, and development a real priority in daily practice. As Aristotle emphasized a long time ago, “Excellence...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
primary or generative appropriability. By contrast, years later, Apple broke new ground in the creation of the iPod, a simple portable device that allowed users to play music through a digital library. But it didn't stop there. Realizing...
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- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
volume. The distinguishing operational characteristic of by-product synergy is that quantities of the primary product and by-product are linked, with production of the primary product defining the upper...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
Editor's note. In the United States, a primary provider of health care is through employers. "Every corporation is a player in public health," writes John A. Quelch in a new book of case studies, Consumers, Corporations, and...
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- 30 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”
regard, Aiken feels that women often face a different challenge than men because they are too often "put into staff positions rather than line management jobs in order to 'protect their success,'" which, she adds, "
actually hinders the movement of...
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by James Heskett
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
Mumbai, and an ongoing investigation of the transfer of land from agricultural to industrial use in China. Pirates On The Horizon There are two primary types of IP theft for copyright industries, which include movies, music, books, and...
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- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
to prevent them. "The main conclusion from this whole stream of research is that investing in poverty reduction strategies not only has direct economic benefits but also political benefits," says Lakshmi Iyer, a Harvard Business...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
of the workshops is to develop training programs in the prevention of HIV/AIDS that can be scaled to the needs of the organization and deliver key curricular materials and models over the Internet. The challenge is to overcome the...
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Video Management Policy | About
Video Management Policy General Principles At Harvard Business School, the video management systems infrastructure is implemented to enhance the safety and security of the community, reduce institutional risk, strengthen customer service and operational efficiency, and...
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- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
from opioids), Shumway also cites domestic abuse and criminal records that prevent reintegration into society as primary factors that contribute to homelessness. “A disproportionate number of the homeless...
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Deborah Blagg
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
and the distribution of farm sizes remained extremely unequal. We identify two primary causes for the slow progress of reform: first, the high cost of implementing these programs was a major factor in reducing take-up. On the other hand,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
Nair, who received his medical training in India and a master's degree from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Gita's case demonstrates not only the importance of getting good primary care but also that patients are willing to...
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- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
ability to refocus the company on its primary mission-discovering breakthrough drugs-soon earned him the respect of Wall Street, too. Between 1994 and 2001, Merck launched an unprecedented seventeen new drugs and increased revenues from...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
existing free-care funding. That makes it possible to say politically to the principals, ‘You’re already paying for this free care; let’s use that funding in a better way.’ ” Pozen regrets that a basic, no-frills plan — limited to high-deductible catastrophic coverage...
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- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
high-paying ones. Wherever possible, health care professionals have shifted from their normal service lines to serve COVID patients. Primary care provider offices and outpatient services are empty. As a result, health care provider...
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by Danielle Kost